PhoroLinux

Everyone love music. How to manage and play your music collection in Linux? GMusicBrowser is my choice. GMusicBrowser is written in Perl. It supports mp3, ogg, flac and mpc files, includes tag editor, mass-renaming and plugin system. You can also custom window layouts of GMusicBrowser.

Installing GMusicBrowser

Before install GMusicBrowser, your system needs to install the following packages:

• perl
• gtk+2 and its perl bindings
• gstreamer and its perl bindings or mpg321/ogg123/flac123/amixer or mplayer
• Gtk2::Trayicon (optional)
• Gtk2::MozEmbed (optional)

The latest stable version of GMusicBrowser is 0.960. For Debian/Ubuntu users, get deb package from here:

sudo dpkg -i gmusicbrowser_0.960_all.deb

For RPM-based Linux distributions users, download rpm package from here:

sudo rpm -i gmusicbrowser-0.960-1.noarch.rpm

For other users, get tarball file from here:

tar xzvf gmusicbrowser-0.960.tar.gz
gmusicbrowser-0.960/gmusicbrowser.pl


Running GMusicBrowser

To run GMusicBrowser, you can click Applications → Sound & Video → gmusicbrowser menu item.